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Tina Kelley Check out some of the submissions for redoing the old police headquarters in Maplewood. Do you have a favorite?
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With the plan on the agenda for tonight's township committee meeting, here are letters of interest from developers interested in rebuilding the old police headquarters on Dunnell Road in Maplewood.
Tina Kelley
There's an interesting conversation on the fate of the old police building in Maplewood. Check out Rick Wessler's post here. How would you like that building to be developed?
http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/
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In my opinion, serious concerns remain about plans for the old police station in Maplewood, including the bulk of the development, its setbacks and its effect on shade trees. Come out to Tuesday's meeting to hear more.
Tina Kelley It's picture day on The Local! Send your photos of today to southmountainlocal@nytimes.com! We'll put em right up! Thanks!
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Hit us with your best shots! It's photo day at The Local.
Tina Kelley People feel strongly about hazing at Millburn High School, that it's simply harmless, or deeply disturbing. Check out 2 opinions at the The Local.
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A recent graduate of Millburn High School says excessive attention is being given to recent hazing incidents, which she calls harmless, while the mother of a girl who transferred from the school said hazing caused her daughter lasting harm.
Tina Kelley
This post, which came in out of the blue from a citizen journalist, made my stomach hurt with its frankness. Check it out.
http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/
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I worry about the possibility that my daughter may be the victim of a bully. And I worry about telling her that, when I was 13, I was a bully of the first order.
Tina Kelley The battle over what gets played at holiday concerts in South Orange/Maplewood continues on The Local. What do you think? http://bit.ly/49FCwy
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The lawyer for the plaintiff in the holiday music federal lawsuit against the South Orange Maplewood school district shares his impressions of how the arguments went against his client this morning.
Tina Kelley Sick of taxes in South Orange? The Local's legal writer, Janet Armuth Wolkoff, talks about her five tax appeals. Whoa. http://bit.ly/19zDl.
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After filing five tax appeals, I wonder, why can't we arrange our political affairs so that we're happy about our tax system?
Tina Kelley
I'm excited that we're now open for advertising, starting at $5/1000cpm. Who's in first? Maplewood? Millburn? South Orange?
http://bit.ly/AdG5T
Tina Kelley has enjoyed living in Maplewood for the past six years, and can frequently been found at Knitknack on Springfield Avenue, picking up supplies for her latest shawl or sweater. When she is not ferrying her two children to school and after-school activities, or taking family hikes at the South Mountain Reserva...tion, she is busy writing articles for The New York Times, where she has been a staff reporter for 10 years. She was most recently assigned to the Newark bureau, where she wrote about the possible afterschool closing of the main branch of the Maplewood library and children who were afraid of automatic flush toilets, but she has also written articles involving the mysterious deaths of bats in the Northeast, the services summer camps provide to parents and the infamous Maplewood gum wall. After 9/11 she wrote 121 Portraits of Grief, winning a tiny fraction of The Times’ Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism in 2002. Her book of poetry, “The Gospel of Galore” (Word Press, Cincinnati ), won a Washington State Book Award in 2003. She grew up in Morristown, and her husband wears a T-shirt that says “Jersey Doesn’t Like You Either.”
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Tina Kelley
We're looking for people in Maplewood, Millburn and South Orange who do interesting things in their basement, for Tara George to interview. Any suggestions? Here's a sample of what she does:
http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/
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Subterranean bootleggers in our midst are popular with their neighbors, quirkily creative, and obeying the law, too.
Tina Kelley
Mark Caserta raises an interesting question on how we can keep local businesses in business: http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/
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A new project proposes spending $50 each month among your three favorite local stores. Could this investment successfully bail out small businesses?
Tina Kelley
I'm sorry, I think this is one of the funnier posts we've had. See if you agree (but not if you're eating while you're reading.
http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/
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Where dogs are concerned, sometimes you find happiness in unlikely places, and by the bucket.
Tina Kelley
We've been having a heated discussion of an intersection in Maplewood, thanks to SeeClickFix, check it out here: http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/
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Local residents put their heads together on how to fix the intersection of Maplewood and Jefferson Avenues in Maplewood. Do you have any suggestions?
Tina Kelley
I was in the presence of greatness this week, watching Meghan Gibbons at work.
http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/
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At the spring auction to benefit my church, St. Stephen’s in Millburn, I put a set of knitting lessons up for bid. I’ve been knitting for 25 years and always like to get new converts to the coven of needle workers, in light of how much pleasure I have gotten from my hobby.
Tina Kelley
One of the reasons I love this town:
http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/
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One of the reasons I love living in Maplewood is the unusual services occasionally offered by the police department. This afternoon, someone called the police to report a mother duck and seven ducklings on the march, near Prospect Street. ...
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Try your hand at coming up with the right words for Phil Chen’s drawing, above. Our judge is on vacation this week, so we’ll keep the contest open until first thing Monday. Enter your suggestions in the comments below. Prizes will be awarded.
